US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007

More than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries as refugees, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday.

Around 5,000 people per day are fleeing the three-year conflict, which the U.N. says has already claimed over 100,000 lives.

“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century -- a disgraceful
humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in
recent history,” said António Guterres, the U.N.’s high commissioner
responsible for refugees.

But, while the UN and nations across the West feign shock over the growing humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in and around Syria, the goal of a violent sectarian conflict and its predictable, catastrophic results along with calls to literally "bleed" Syria have been the underlying strategy of special interests in the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and their regional partners since at least 2007.

A Timeline: How the Syrian Conflict Really Unfolded

Western media networks have ensured that a singular narrative of "pro-democracy" uprisings turning violent in the face of brutal oppression by the Syrian government after the so-called "Arab Spring" is disseminated across the public. In reality, "pro-democracy" protesters served as a tenuous smokescreen behind which armed foreign-backed extremists took to the streets and countrysides of Syria to execute a sectarian bloodbath years in the making. Here is a timeline that illuminates the true cause of Syria's current conflict and the foreign interests, not the Syrian government, responsible for the tens of thousands dead and millions displaced during the conflict.

2006: Israel attempts, and fails, to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon after a prolonged aerial bombard that resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. CNN: "UN: Hezbollah and Israel agree on Monday cease-fire," August 13, 2006. 2007: Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker reveals that US, Israel,
Saudi Arabia and Hariri in Lebanon as well as the Syrian arm of the
Muslim Brotherhood were assembling, arming, training, and heavily
funding a sectarian extremists front, many of whom had direct ties to Al
Qaeda, to unleash in both Lebanon and Syria. The goal was to create and
exploit a sectarian divide between Sunni and Shi'ia Muslims. Hersh
interviewed intelligence officers who expressed concerns over the
"cataclysmic conflict" that would result, and the need to protect ethnic
minorities from sectarian atrocities. The report indicated that
extremists would be logistically staged in northern Lebanon where they
would be able to cross back and forth into Syria. New Yorker: "The Redirection," by Seymour Hersh, March 5, 2007.

2009-2010: In an April 2011 AFP report,
Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights
and Labor, admitted that the "US government has budgeted $50 million
in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists
protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian
governments." The report went on to admit that the US (emphasis added) "organized
training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world.A
session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered
activists from Tunisia, Egypt,Syria and Lebanon who returned to
their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there."
Posner would add, "They went back and there's a ripple effect." AFP: "US Trains Activists to Evade Security Forces," April 8, 2011.

Image:
Real genocidal atrocities during the "Arab Spring" occurred at the
hands of NATO and its proxy sectarian terrorists. Pictured is Sirte,
Libya, after NATO-armed rebels surrounded it, cut off power, water, food, and emergency aid, and allowed NATO to bombard it
with daily airstrikes before a final orgy of death and destruction left
its streets and facades crumbling. This is the "civilian protection"
the UN and its enforcement arm NATO plan on bringing to Syria.

Image: Brookings Institution's Middle East Memo #21 "Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf)," makes no secret that the humanitarian "responsibility to protect" is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.

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2012: The US policy think-tank Brookings Institution in its Middle East Memo #21 "Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),"
admits that it does not seek any negotiated ceasefire under the UN's
"Kofi Annan peace plan" that leaves Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in
power and would rather arm militants, even with the knowledge they will
never succeed, to "bleed" the government, "keeping a regional adversary
weak, while avoiding the costs of direct intervention." This reveals
that US policy does not view US interference in Syria as a moral
imperative predicated on defending human rights, but rather using this
false predication to couch aspirations of regional hegemony. Land Destroyer: "US Brookings Wants to "Bleed" Syria to Death," May 28, 2012.

And, just this year, it was revealed that despite the West's feigned military and political paralysis regarding the Syrian conflict, the US and Great Britain have been covertly funding and arming sectarian extremists to the tune of billions of dollars and arming them with literally thousands of tons of weaponry. Despite claims of "carefully vetting" "moderate" militant factions, the prominence of Al Qaeda-linked extremist groups indicates that the majority of Western support, laundered through Qatar and Saudi Arabia, is being purposefully put into the hands of the very sectarian extremists identified in Seymour Hersh's 2007 article, "The Redirection."

US Created and is Now Using Syrian Catastrophe to Justify Intervention

The non-debate taking place now to justify US military intervention in a conflict they themselves started and have intentionally perpetuated, is whether chemical weapons were used in Damascus on August 21, 2013 - not even "who" deployed them. The weakness of the US' argument has seen an unprecedented backlash across both the world's populations and the global diplomatic community. And despite only 9% of the American public supporting a military intervention in Syria, Congress appears poised to not only green-light "limited strikes," but may approve of a wider military escalation.

In Seymour Hersh's 2007 New Yorker article, "The Redirection," Robert Baer, a former CIA agent in Lebanon, warned of the sectarian bloodbath the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia were planning to unleash. He stated:

“we’ve got Sunni Arabs
preparing for cataclysmic conflict, and we will need somebody to
protect the Christians in Lebanon. It used to be the French and the
United States who would do it, and now it’s going to be Nasrallah and
the Shiites"

Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, also featured in Hersh's report, would in turn also warn of an imminent and
spreading sectarian war purposefully stoked by the West:

Nasrallah said he believed that President Bush’s goal was “the
drawing of a new map for the region. They want the partition of Iraq.
Iraq is not on the edge of a civil war—there is a civil war.
There is ethnic and sectarian cleansing. The daily killing and
displacement which is taking place in Iraq aims at achieving three Iraqi
parts, which will be sectarian and ethnically pure as a prelude to the
partition of Iraq. Within one or two years at the most, there will be
total Sunni areas, total Shiite areas, and total Kurdish areas. Even in
Baghdad, there is a fear that it might be divided into two areas, one
Sunni and one Shiite.”

He went on, “I can say that President Bush is lying when he says he
does not want Iraq to be partitioned. All the facts occurring now on the
ground make you swear he is dragging Iraq to partition. And a day will
come when he will say, ‘I cannot do anything, since the Iraqis want the
partition of their country and I honor the wishes of the people of
Iraq.’ ”

Nasrallah said he believed that America also wanted to bring about
the partition of Lebanon and of Syria. In Syria, he said, the result
would be to push the country “into chaos and internal battles like in
Iraq.” In Lebanon, “There will be a Sunni state, an Alawi state, a
Christian state, and a Druze state.” But, he said, “I do not know if
there will be a Shiite state.”

It would be difficult for anyone to look across the scarred landscape of today's Syria and not see that this horrific conspiracy was realized in full. The Western media is now acquainting the public with the possibility of a partitioned Syria, echoing the warnings of Nasrallah years ago. The goals of a US military strike would be to "degrade" the capabilities of the Syrian government, while bolstering the terrorist legions still operating within and along Syria's borders.

What we are witnessing in Syria today is the direct result of a documented conspiracy, not by a "brutal Syrian regime" "oppressing" its own people, but of a US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia radicalizing, arming, and unleashing a sectarian tidal wave they knew well ahead of time would cause atrocities, genocide, mass displacements and even the geopolitical partitioning of Syria and beyond. The intentional destabilization of the region is meant to weaken Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Iraq - and even Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and others - to accomplish what the depleted, impotent US and Israeli forces could not achieve. Military intervention now seeks to tip the balance of an already teetering region.

The attacks on Syria are not humanitarian by any measure. They are simply the latest stage of a long-running plan to divide and destroy the region, leaving the West the sole regional hegemonic power.